Okla. Stat. tit. 18, § 18-552.4
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Persons and organizations exempt
Official statutory text
Except as otherwise specifically provided in the Oklahoma
Solicitation of Charitable Contributions Act, the provisions of
Sections 552.3 of this title shall not apply to the following
persons:
1. Organizations incorporated for religious purposes and
actually engaged in bona fide religious programs, and other
organizations directly operated, supervised, or controlled by a
religious organization;
2. Educational institutions that have a faculty, regularly
enrolled students and offer courses of study leading to the granting
of recognized degrees when solicitations of contributions are
primarily confined to its student body and their families, alumni,
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faculty and trustees and any 501(c)(3) organization authorized by
and having an established identity with such institutions;
3. Fraternal organizations, when soliciting from their own
members, and patriotic and civic organizations, when solicitation of
contributions is confined to the membership of said organizations,
and the solicitation is managed by their own membership without paid
solicitors; and
4. Persons soliciting contributions for a named individual
person, when such individual person is specified by name at the time
of solicitation, the purpose for such contribution is clearly
stated, and if the gross contributions collected, without any
deductions whatsoever for the benefit of the solicitor or any other
person, be deposited directly to an account in the name of the
beneficiary established for that purpose at a licensed local bank,
and if such contributions are used for the direct benefit of the
named individual person as beneficiary.
Solicitation of Charitable Contributions Act, the provisions of
Sections 552.3 of this title shall not apply to the following
persons:
1. Organizations incorporated for religious purposes and
actually engaged in bona fide religious programs, and other
organizations directly operated, supervised, or controlled by a
religious organization;
2. Educational institutions that have a faculty, regularly
enrolled students and offer courses of study leading to the granting
of recognized degrees when solicitations of contributions are
primarily confined to its student body and their families, alumni,
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 18. Corporations Page 247
faculty and trustees and any 501(c)(3) organization authorized by
and having an established identity with such institutions;
3. Fraternal organizations, when soliciting from their own
members, and patriotic and civic organizations, when solicitation of
contributions is confined to the membership of said organizations,
and the solicitation is managed by their own membership without paid
solicitors; and
4. Persons soliciting contributions for a named individual
person, when such individual person is specified by name at the time
of solicitation, the purpose for such contribution is clearly
stated, and if the gross contributions collected, without any
deductions whatsoever for the benefit of the solicitor or any other
person, be deposited directly to an account in the name of the
beneficiary established for that purpose at a licensed local bank,
and if such contributions are used for the direct benefit of the
named individual person as beneficiary.
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